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Knossos and It's Fall Knossos and It’s Fall It all started with the Minoans. Who were they though? Did they come for a reason? Where did they come from? When did they come? Why did they leave for Greece to begin with? The questions go on forever, but these are the typical ones. Who, what, where, when, and why. To be honest, no one really knows all of the answers. So much has been lost from war, fires, and age. Per- haps a good place to start is who were they? The Minoans were proto-Greeks, which means they were the Greek peoples who formed the Greeks we know of today. They weren't called Greeks though, in fact, we don't even know their real name. We know that they were an ancient Indo-European culture who came down from the northern Greek peninsula, possibly through Macedonia and they are known best for being a sea culture, and having settled on the island of Crete around 2700 B.C., they are particularly ancient as well as sophisticated. In fact, they are thought to be the first sea culture, as well as the first peoples at all to have sailed on the ocean successfully, and where a chance encounter with the Syrians sailing nearby coasts much later in the 1900s B.C. would actually encourage full-blown sailing to be practiced and perfected by most Mediterranean cultures thereafter. But who were they? We don't know, and we might never know unless evidence is dug up. Now the reason why this article features Minoans and Mycenaeans is because of how they clashed before the end of the Bronze Age. It is thought that the Minoans had come as explorers and in search of new ways of living. It seemed as though the entire world was migrating in the late Bronze Age, where from 4000 B.C. until 2000 B.C. everyone just seemed to be in search of their future home and try this new fad called agriculture. The Minoans were wildly successful later on, but they began very secretively. No one even knew they existed until the 1800s B.C., when in 1900 B.C. some scattered encounters with the Minoans occurred with the Syrians but no one believed them. But they were found, and what a city. On the left shows a section of the restored Palace at Knossos in Crete. The palace itself was fairly large, but what made it so unique was its decorations. Every inch of every wall was colored and covered in frescoes depicting sea creatures and Poteidon (Poseidon) their sea god. They were truly a culture who loved art, and they were truly talented. Below is some pottery with their unique de- signs, most of which depict sea creatures and bulls, as the bull was sacred to the Minoans. Ancient Minoans revered the bull, and would celebrate with bull cups filled with fine wine and play games, one of which included leaping over the head of a raging, running bull and flipping over, landing on its butt. If the person was able to complete this flip, landing on its butt and stand for a moment, he would be recognized for his skill in the game. This is an odd game, but shows how that actively worshipped, celebrated, and even played games all at the same time. I don't believe this is a common mixture of these activities, which may show the easy-going nature the culture had. Unlike later Greeks, who felt as though the gods were con- stantly out to get them or curse everyone. 1 Playing jumping games with ancient bulls was no easy feat. The auroch was a giant that stood almost as high as an elephant. There were worshiped throughout Mesopo- tamia for their strength and stamina. Remember that Mesopotamian gods often were found in the forms of lions, bulls, and other animals. Around 1800 B.C. the Minoan culture flourished, and with their discovery by the ad- venturous Syrians, who began boldly sailing all around the Mediterranean coasts, overseas trade boomed, and across the entire Mediterranean the Minoans were fan- Ancient Auroch - These now extinct ancient tastically popular. All over the place in Syria all the way down to Canaan there is evi- cattle are shown in scale to modern cattle dence of Minoan goods. and humans. The Minoans became the popular kid on the block, but around 1700 BC and 1600 B.C. there were two large disasters on Crete, although the evidence is controversial at best, some historians believe that there may been an earthquake or volcano eruption on one or both of these occasions. Some say there may have been an invasion, but around 1500 B.C. the volcano called Thera (Santorini) erupted, which was the largest natural disaster ever to occur on the Earth to this day, so chances are, since the Minoan palaces at Knossos, Phaistos, Malia, and Kato Zakros were utterly destroyed, it was probably the volcano. But like the troopers they were, they picked themselves back up on both occasions and remained the popular kid on the block. Everyone wanted to be them, but one culture wanted them more, and around early 1500 to late 1400 B.C., the Minoans went to war. RISE OF THE MYCENAEANS: Have you ever met someone truly greedy, savage, and narcissistic? Now the Mycenaeans arrived in Greece probably using the same route that the Minoans took (through the north and ventured south through Greece). They moved fairly quickly through Greece around 2000 B.C. and finally settled in the Peloponnese south of classical Athens around 1900 B.C. They certainly made it known to everyone that they were a warrior culture, and their entire life revolved around solely around their given clan and the clan activities such as fighting, drinking, conquering, enslaving, and hunting and gathering. Like the Hur- rian's in Mesopotamia around this same time period, they were true bullies. Immediately after arriving on the scene the Mycenae- ans go rampaging through some of Greece. They set up forts at Pylos that were more like bunkers than anything, and repeated this process everywhere they went, setting up military command headquarters where ever they stopped, and it made no difference if people were living there. Those unfortunate enough to cross paths with the Mycenaeans were killed and the survivors were en- slaved, simply being shipped off to a nearby bunker to create weapons and armor and to maintain their financial records since they were illiterate and refused to learn to read. - What warrior should learn to read! Certainly not a prideful Mycenaean! No way, they made others do it for them and only had a few of them learn enough of the language being used to make sure the slaves were not tricking them. Eventually the language they had been speaking was adapted into a written language known as Linear A and B, where Linear A was the Minoan language both written and spoken, and Linear B was an adapted version of the Minoan language to suit the spoken language of the Mycenaeans. Yes, I did just give it away. The Minoans and Mycenaeans clash and you already know who won. Now the Mycenaeans were truly brutal and savage. They constantly roamed Greece and enslaved every person they found, and typically stole all of their possessions and would actually copy their arts and crafts for their businesses. This is why it was stated up above that they were unoriginal, because they were so devoted to perfecting the art of killing and conquering, they actually chose to counterfeit the artistic designs of the cultures they enslaved and completely took over their businesses rather than use their imagination and hard work. This earned them piles of money without ever doing any work, so they were fully capable of perfecting their own art of conquering and enslaving while maintaining their counterfeited businesses. This is 2 also how the Mycenaeans figured out how to sail-- after all, seeing is believing! The picture above depicts a Mycenaean bunker palace, since they were a combination of a military bunker filled with many soldiers and slaves, but were also palaces by tradition, for even though they were savages they were somewhat aristocratic in their way of life, clan hierarchy and the ways of affluence. These palaces beheld more riches and luxuries that were stored away for lack of room than what most kings ever get in lifetimes. Much of what they stole they also used for every day amusement and overall profit. The many bunker palaces the Mycenaeans built were built with defense in mind, though, so no matter how aristocratic they were, they were all still savages at heart. They always seemed to prepare for a siege or an enemy faction to come on a glorious mission of revenge, yet there are few, if any, ref- erences of this ever happening with other cultures. In fact, to further portend their barbarism and pettiness, the Mycenaeans were made up of clans and each of the clan's members typically held allegiances to their clan leaders, yet those leaders so often turned on other nearby forts and attacked other leaders in their pursuit of greed and power that it is widely thought that much of the My- cenaeans simply destroyed themselves to a point of virtual disarray. Nearly all of the enemies the Mycenaeans ever encountered were their own blood-kin of neighboring clans. FALL OF THE MINOANS: By the late 1400s B.C., the Mycenaean clans had conquered all of Greece one-by-one, except for Minoan Crete, for although they knew how to sail, the Minoans were not a petty culture by any means.
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